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A person or prosecuted for a crime. [Obs.] See Appellee.

The person who is appealed against, or accused of crime; -- opposed to appellor. Blackstone.

The person who institutes an appeal, or prosecutes another for a crime. Blackstone.

One who confesses a crime and accuses another. See 1st Approvement, 2.

Rightly; correctly; in a right way or form; without mistake or crime; as, to worship God aright.

To take, seize, or apprehend by authority of law; as, to arrest one for debt, or for a crime.

(Scots Law), share or concern by aiding and abetting a criminal in the perpetration of a crime, whether by advice or by assistance in the execution; complicity.

niate; as, to asperse a poet or his writings; to asperse a man's character. With blackest crimes aspersed. Cowper.

stand as an equivalent; to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offense or a crime. The murderer fell, and blood atoned for blood. Pope. The ministry not atoning for their former conduct by any wise or popular measure. Junius.

To accuse; to charge with a crime or a dishonorable act. [Archaic]

uccessful, effort. By his blindness maimed for high attempts. Milton. Attempt to commit a crime (Law), such an intentional preparatory act as will apparently result, if not extrinsically hindered, in a crime which it was designed to effect. Wharton.

elieved to be right; to own or acknowledge frankly; as, a man avows his principles or his crimes. Which I to be the of Israel's God Avow, and challenge Dagon to the test. Milton.

offending against a ban; as, a mulct paid to a bishop by one guilty of sacrilege or other crimes. Ban of the empire (German Hist.), an imperial interdict by which political rights and privileges, as those of a prince, city, or district, were taken away.

The crime of a judge who is influenced by bribery in pronouncing judgment. Wharton.

eath of life; and man became a living soul. Gen. ii. 7. That error now which is become my crime. Milton.

siding judge or by a court against a person guilty of some contempt, or indicted for some crime; -- so called in distinction from a justice's warrant.

make sottish; to make dull or stupid; to stupefy; to infatuate. Fools besotted with their crimes. Hudibras.

That which is deserving of censure or disapprobation; culpability; fault; crime; sin. Holy and without blame before him in love. Eph. i. 4.

One who spreads reports or blazes matters abroad. "Blazers of crime." Spenser.

nce. Often figuratively; as, to blot out offenses. One act like this blots out a thousand crimes. Dryden.